discover
Usage
What are other ways to say discover?
The verb discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before. To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: to learn a language. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning.
Example Sentences
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Here’s what financial planners know but many retirees discover too late: The portfolio number that seemed impossible to reach often proves insufficient for the retirement they’ve envisioned.
From MarketWatch
Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have discovered a molecular "switch" that determines whether pancreatic cancer cells respond to chemotherapy or resist it.
From Science Daily
Their purported evidence: snapshots discovered in Ms. Nichter’s backpack of her with Israeli friends in army garb.
"Most people discover them as a byproduct of other biodiversity or taxonomy studies rather than as the main goal."
From Science Daily
Other early primate relatives have been discovered in the southwestern United States, but they date to roughly two million years later – creating a gap in the fossil record that puzzled scientists… until now.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
